Having used the New York Public Library's map collection to set together a piffling Leaflet.js map of New York Vintage Maps I remembered that the library too has a swell collection of costless too opened upward access vintage photographs. I thus decided to accept payoff of the library's collection of historical photographs of New York to add together closed to vintage photos of Lower Manhattan to the vintage maps of New York.
My New York Vintage Maps site thus directly displays vintage maps which stimulate got been georectified yesteryear the New York Public Library's Map Warper project overlaid amongst sometime photos (and ane or 2 sketches) from the New York Public Library's Digital Collections.
My New York Map is patch inspired yesteryear other swell vintage map too photographs sites such as Our Town Stories - Edinburgh too Helsinki Ennen. The Helsinki map includes the selection to filter the maps too photos yesteryear decade, allowing you lot to stance the historical photos of the metropolis on a map from the same decade. In the hereafter I promise to add together a like filter to the New York Vintage Maps collection.
